The Cloudera HBase Team are proud to be members of Apache HBase’s model community and are currently AWOL, busy celebrating the release of the milestone Apache HBase 1.0. The following, from release manager Enis Soztutar, was published today in the ASF’s blog.

The Apache Hive PMC has recently voted to release Hive 1.0.0 (formerly known as Hive 0.14.1).

This release is recognition of the work the Apache Hive community has done over the past nine years and is continuing to do. The Apache Hive 1.0.0 release is a codebase that was expected to be released as 0.14.1 but the community felt it was time to move to a 1.x.y release naming structure.

You may have noticed that this report went on hiatus for December 2014 due to a lack of critical news mass (plus, we realize that most of you are out of the loop until mid-January). It’s back with a vengeance, though:

Find Cloudera tech talks in Austin, London, Washington DC, Zurich, and other cities through March 2015.

Below please find our regularly scheduled quarterly update about where to find tech talks by Cloudera employees—this time, through the first quarter of calendar year 2015. Note that this list will be continually curated during the period; complete logistical information may not be available yet. And remember, many of these talks are in “free” venues (no cost of entry).

If you’re a developer in Silicon Valley, you probably already know that since its debut in 2012, HBaseCon has been one of the best developer community conferences out there. If you’re not, this is a great opportunity to learn that for yourself: HBaseCon 2015 will occur on Thurs., May 7, 2015, at the Westin St. Francis on Union Square in San Francisco.

Our “Top 10″ list of blog posts published during a calendar year is a crowd favorite (see the 2013 version here), in particular because it serves as informal, crowdsourced research about popular interests. Page views don’t lie (although skew for publishing date—clearly, posts that publish earlier in the year have pole position—has to be taken into account).

In 2014, a strong interest in various new components that bring real time or near-real time capabilities to the Apache Hadoop ecosystem is apparent. And we’re particularly proud that the most popular post was authored by a non-employee.

The Truth About MapReduce Performance on SSDsby Karthik Kambatla & Yanpei ChenIt turns out that cost-per-performance, not cost-per-capacity, is the better metric for evaluating the true value of SSDs. (See the session on this topic at Strata+Hadoop World San Jose in Feb. 2015!)